Hey everyone, I've been eating gluten-free for the past four years. One thing I've missed is the Morningstar breakfast sausage patties. (I forgot if those were vegan or vegetarian.)

I had an idea for making a breakfast sausage style patty. I'm thinking about doing Isa's baked falafel recipe from Appetite for Reduction, but with traditional breakfast sausage spices (sage, rosemary, thyme, cayenne, nutmeg). Other than that being quite a bit of work early in the morning, I thought that it might be softer or more crumbly than I'd prefer, but maybe it would be tasty.

Have any of you (who probably live in a bigger city) seen any g/f veggie sausage or other quick, easy meat replacements? Here in southern Michigan, I have found two g/f veggie burgers: Amy's Sonoma burger and Qrunch branch quinoa burgers. (The Italian style Qrunch is awesome--tastes like Italian falafel.) Has anyone attempted making burgers or sausages without gluten? I've been able to do some chickpea-based and black bean sweet potato burgers, but have yet to try the breakfast side of things.

This recipe at celiac.com looks sort of doable and the spices seem on target. I found it or a very similar recipe (different by 2 spices) on SparkPeople too. I have not tried it BUT: it looks like you might be able to make ahead to the point where you roll the links in the spices to cover them, and then refrigerate or freeze; you fry them in oil. Read and see what you think.

It also says "mash in bowl" but if you do have a food processor and it's not a big production to get it out and use it that may save time too.

i used to use the VWAV sausage crumble recipe to flavor TVP crumbles, which while they're not a patty, might hit the spot texture and flavor-wise and be useful in other recipes like breakfast burritos or whatever.